David Edward Jenkins Quotes

As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

One percent doubt is zero percent faith.

When you don't believe something, you can't make yourself believe it. There's nothing you can do to believe it again. You either believe it or you don't.

I think maybe it is better to believe than not to believe. But I couldn't tell you why.

Without sounding overly pompous about it, I don't really trust certainty in anything, actually. Especially as I get older. Except love. I'm certain of love, I guess.

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.

It is easier to believe than to doubt.

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

Faith is Doubt.

Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.

The opposite of faith is not doubt, it’s certainty.

I hate doubt, yet I am certain that doubt is the only way to approach anything worth believing in.

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

You must believe me when I believe, and not when I doubt.

Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.

Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt.

Belief is tricky because left to its own devices, it can court a kind of surety, an unquestioning allegiance that fears doubt and destroys difference.

Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.

Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.

I wouldn't like to be a non-believer in anything.

I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.